A reader writes: Between my small income and that of my wife, it seems we come up more and more short every month. Medical bills, childcare costs, and student debt are all big drains. For multiple reasons, neither I nor my wife have the luxury of staying home to cut costs. I would be happy [Read More...]

Customary thoughtful common sense from Fr. Barron, punctuated across the blogosphere by outraged people asking absurd questions like “Why do we have to understand the context of the pope’s remarks?” I remember when Catholics understood that texts needed to be read in the context of the Tradition? When did so many of us morph into fundamentalists? [Read more...]

He writes: I enjoyed reading your blog this morning and have a quick question regarding “sin is sin.” Today I was shocked by what some of my conservative evangelical friends told me about what was said in church yesterday about the Supreme Court ruling on marriage. They all expressed sadness, but a naïve lack of concern about [Read More...]

A reader writes: A few months ago my husband and I discovered that our son has been smoking pot. We’ve been working with counselors and specialists since then and thought that things were getting better and that he stopped using. Apparently we underestimated the great powers of deception that drug users have. Last night we [Read More...]

of Catholics for the Common Good and discussed the Marriage Reality Movement: On Monday’s “Connecting the Dots”: More “Connecting the Dots” podcasts here! Listen live here M-F at 5PM Eastern. Call in at 1-855-949-1380. [Read more...]

A reader writes: Let me start off with the narcissism of small differences, where all truly Modern conversations begin: I like you already. I was a cradle Catholic–a lukewarm one, albeit with perfect-ish attendance. Plenty of seeds. Shallow roots. After that I went to college, where I dressed up as a drunken communist who was [Read More...]

A reader writes, “If God is love why would he care who you love or how many.” Which reminds me inexorably of the Prophet Chesterton’s essay “The Usual Article” (in The Thing: Why I Am a Catholic) in which he replies to a letter to the editor that says pretty much exactly the same thing [Read More...]

A reader writes: Could you please ask your readers to pray for my dad? He is having an angiogram tomorrow and may need some stents put in. He’s already one heart attack before, so I’m really worried about him. If you could send up some prayers that the operation will go smoothly tomorrow and that [Read More...]

A reader writes: Would people pray for my Grandma. She had been vomiting last Friday. The vomiting had stopped from Saturday up to Monday. Then it returned yesterday and today. My Grandma went to the doctors, was prescribed iron, and to drink a lot of fluids. The doctor has also requested she undergo an ultrasound. [Read More...]

America takes a look at the whole Planned Parenthood video and I now fear it is, once again, going to backfire on the prolife movement. The real horror of the video (and monstrous horror it is) is the PP rep’s casual discussion, over fava beans and a nice chianti, of her crushing and shredding human [Read More...]

…shoveling brown Third Worlders around like concrete and culling their herd on the principle “Just enough of me, way too much of you!” means never having to say you’re sorry, no matter how massively and obviously wrong you’ve been. [Read more...]

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